1890-92 - University Archives and Records Center - University of ...

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ment the undergraduate and graduate courses were better co-ordinated,
and the order of your Board requiring Professors to give
graduate instruction when called upon to do so was made practicable
by their release from an equivalent amount of undergraduate
work. The rapid increase in the number of matriculates,
from S3 in 1890 to 11; in 1892, shows that the unusual facilities
which we are able to offer in special lines of study are fully
appreciated by the growing number of men and women who find
the post-graduate studies essential to their full equipment for their
life work. For women form no inconsiderable number of these
matriculates. The Graduate Department for Women, which was
formally opened on May 4, 1892, finds its instructors and equipment
in this Department, and is governed by its rules. The Hall
donated by Col. Bennett, after a few alterations to adapt it to the
needs of the Department, was completely furnished through the
exertion of the ladies on its Board of Managers, and is the home
of the resident students. There is need of the endowment of
more fellowships in this Department for the maintenance of the
full number of women which the Hall is able to accommodate
while pursuing the graduate studies which are open to them as
freely as to men, and which lead to the same degree, the Doctorate
in Philosophy.
The Department of Medicine has had an eventful and most
prosperous career during the period covered by this report.
Professor James Tyson, to whom the Department owes so much
for invaluable services as Secretary, and later as Dean, feeling
that the duties of his chair and his increasing practice made it a
' necessity, resigned his Deanship in 1892, and was succeeded in
that office by Professor John Marshall, whqge able management
of the Veterinary Department indicated his fitness for the position.
The mutual pledges between Mr. Henry C. Lea and the University
have been happily fulfilled. Within the stipulated time the.
former has completed and handed over for use the building for
the Institute of Hygiene. Dr. John S. Billings has entered upon
his duties as Director and established the courses, which while
related to all departments, are especially affiliated with that m
Medicine. The guarantee fund for a fourth year to be established